Bonnie Tyler

Gaynor Hopkins was born in Wales on 8 June 1951 and broke through in 1977 with 'It's a Heartache,' which hit number three in the US and number four in the UK. The 1980s brought a hard pivot into rock when Jim Steinman handed her 'Total Eclipse of the Heart'—the lead single from her 1983 album Faster Than the Speed of Night, which topped the UK charts—and then 'Holding Out for a Hero.' She found a second wind in Europe during the '90s with producer Dieter Bohlen, scored a French number one in 2003 with a bilingual re-recording of 'Total Eclipse,' and represented the UK at Eurovision in 2013. Th…